The surprisingly popular action-RPG The World Ends With You, originally released in 2007 for the Nintendo DS, is all but officially getting a sequel (for the 3DS?), according to some not-so-subtle hints dropped by Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura in a recent interview. Speaking about its characters making a cameo appearance in Kingdom Hearts 3D, Nomura mentioned that they decided to do voice casting for one of them - Rhyme - "out of consideration for the future of The World Ends With You series".

Of course, if the world would litterally end with you, such trivial gaming topics might give way to more exciting ones - high-stakes gambling, anyone?... Or if it's a more accessible kind of excitement that you're after, a couple of alternatives come to mind (...)

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version of Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena is beeing listed by Famitsu for an August 2 release in Japan. Adding to the game's original version for the arcades from last month, the home consoles edition of Persona 4 Arena introduces a story mode (screenshots) featuring a large number of new scenarios.

Another freshly announced release date is now listing Capcom's upcoming CG film sequel Resident Evil: Damnation for an October 27 premiere in Japanese theaters. (...)

This week's announcement of a Nintendo 3DS sequel for last year's all-girls ninja action game Senran Kagura also included a bit about a TV anime series adaptation, likewise in the making. No details seem to have been provided about the Senran Kagura anime, but the 3DS game sequel, at least, was revealed to be set for an August 30 release in Japan.

Titled Senran Kagura Burst, the new game features the opposingninja faction from Viper Academy as playable characters, and adds stereoscopic 3D support (...)

Just a quick catch-up with some of this week's headlines of interest, which sadly I can't cover in more detail at the moment, due to various offline reasons... For starters, the third Nogizaka Haruka anime will not be a TV series as previously assumed, but a 4-episode OVA titled Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Finale. No release timeframe yet.

The recently announced PSP game adaptation of AnoHana is now set for an August 30 release in Japan. A couple of other game release dates have also been set (...)

The previously revealed game adaptation of Eureka Seven AO appears to be a PlayStation 3 title, planned by Namco Bandai as a hybrid disc release with the anime's future Blu-ray edition. A similar hybrid disc project is also being reported to bundle a game adaptation of the Lagrange anime series. As a reminder, the TV anime series Eureka Seven AO will start airing next week, from April 13, and yesterday a new trailer was released for it.

Update: That "future Blu-ray edition" is actually a Eureka 7 AO OVA. And the Lagrange game for the PS3 will be similarly bundled with the Lagrange OVA Kamogawa Days, out on June 23. No release date was announced at this time for the new Eureka 7 OVA, however.

All right, that's it: it's official! The To Love-Ru Darkness anime project is most definitely a TV series, according to the May issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine (...)

Yet another follow-up story regarding the format of To Love-Ru Darkness now says that this recently announced anime project might not be a TV series, as reported by AnimeAnime.jp a couple of days ago. Their article has since removed any mention of "TV" for the anime's format - which is not to say that it won't be a TV series, just... not officially, yet.

As a follow-up to yesterday's announcement of a To Love-Ru Darkness anime project, the AnimeAnime.jp website has a report about a "Secret Event" held by Geneon Universal at Anime Contents Expo today. There they revealed the format of this upcoming adaptation, as being a TV anime series. Meanwhile, its official website now shows a lovely key visual with the title character, Golden Darkness. No release timeframe yet.

By now it's April 1 in Japan, so whatever "announcements" you read for the remainder of this weekend, take them with limited enthusiasm and unlimited skepticism... Having said that, a Japanese fansite is "reporting" that the PS3 game Tales of Xillia is getting an OVA adaptation from studio ufotable. They claim-slash-joke that the anime will have 4 volumes, with the first one releasing this autumn.

A new "non-game" Angel Beats! project will be announced on April 10, according to Dengeki G's Magazine's official Twitter account (via ANN). More about it (...)

A game adaptation of the upcoming anime Saint Seiya Omega, for an unnamed platform, has been announced for a Fall 2012 release by Namco Bandai. The publisher shared what appears to be an in-game (or at least "in-engine") screenshot, but other specifics about the game were not detailed at this time.

The TV anime series Saint Seiya Omega starts airing in Japan tomorrow, April 1. It is created by Toei Animation, and marks the first new television anime adaptation (...)

Having saved the best for last, the most notable new titled announced today by Fuji TV at its anticipated Noitamina press conference is Robotics;Notes, complete with a debut trailer. This TV anime adaptation will air in Japan from October 2012 and, according to Famitsu, it's created by studio Production I.G. The other freshly revealed projects are Psycho-Pass (also set for October) and Natsuyuki Rendez-vous (July).

The Robotics;Notes anime is based on the third entry in the "augmented science adventure" game series developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, following (...)